Chance to see jupiter during the day?

[Thiink]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15620325-29277,00.html

After reading that, I am confused..

[vindictive666]

may be possible go outside tomorow and have alook :)

ive just checked starrynight backyard on my computer and is behind the moon from my place at 230 pm in the afternoon if i remember i gonna have a look

had a look but was to early only caught the moon tried again late no luck :windy: :windy: plus clouds
:thumbsup:

[toetoe]

One never knows till one gives it a go.
I will be at work at that time but intrested to hear if anyone views this, lets us know if someone does. :astron:

[asimov]

I used to look at jupiter during the day a lot when I was a kid. I just used to view until sunrise, & keep jupiter in the FOV...

[acropolite]

Mr Floyd obviously knew nothing of the fact that Moonman and Dad's Son bought new scopes and made it rain....:lol2:

[fringe_dweller]

wow i didnt know it was so rare to see Jupiter! I feel very priviledged to have seen it now :eyepop: :einstein:
Kearn

[gaa_ian]

Yep ... will be having a peek at this one from work with the 16x70 Bino's
Just so I know it can be done in bright daylight :eyepop:

[gak]

There you go!

I didn't realise you could see Jupiter during the day. I didn't notice it until after I took some shots.

Gerald

[Dave47tuc]

The weather is not so good down this way :windy:
To say the least :D

But a break in the clouds around 4.45pm I could see the Moon so i relaxed and then :eyepop: Jupiter with no optical aid :2thumbs:
I could just make it out to the upper edge of the bright limb.

And now it's raining :rain:

[gaa_ian]

We Dipped out here due to :cloudy: :rain:

[ving]

didnt find out bout it till 5pm... ohwell :)

[Greg Bryant]

Great weather here in Sydney. I stepped out of the office around 4pm, looked up, and there it was. E-mailed several people to get out and take a look too.

[[1ponders]]

Southeat Queensland raining one day beautiful the next. Crystal clear here but the seeing was pretty average. It was a great sight.

[Thiink]

I ended up taking my little bino's to work, but it was raining from 3:30pm until about 4:15pm. When I left work about 4:45pm I noticed that the moon and jupiter were out during a break in the clouds, was very strange. Got home at 4:50pm, grabbed the telescope out and managed to get some shots during the cloud breaks. Was so frustrating waiting for the clouds to clear to take shots, most of the ones I took have light cloud in the road.

All pictures were taken between 5:10pm and 5:35pm (a little late) with either my 40mm andrews plossl (yuck) or the GSO 25mm plossl. Camera was my P&S Kodak 4MP taken Afocally (and without the timer feature hence the average image quality). I really need a decent 30mm widefield EP. :(

image1 (http://users.on.net/sjeriksson/img/iceinspace/jupiter1-resized.jpg) image2 (http://users.on.net/sjeriksson/img/iceinspace/jupiter2-resized.jpg) image3 (http://users.on.net/sjeriksson/img/iceinspace/jupiter3-resized.jpg) image4 (http://users.on.net/sjeriksson/img/iceinspace/jupiter4-resized.jpg)

I have no idea why the shots turned out so dark, as you can see from the shot of the cloud cover (with the moon just peeking through) it was still quite light. The spider and OTA are visable in some shots, don't know why that happened.

ps. have the img tags been disabled? They dont seem to be working.

[ving]

yeah mike has disabled them for now.
the spider does show up when theres to much light going thru the tube i find :)

well shot tho

[Thiink]

I wish I had time to get the tripod out, the images would have turned out 100% better than they did (would have been harder to fight with the clouds though). O well.

[astroron]

:stargaze:
:cold: :astron: I was working on my observatory and missed the closest aproach but took my first shot through the 20cm at 16:30 and a few more after that with telephoto piggy back and a nice group shot of Venus,Saturn, Procyon, Castor and Pollox,but as I only have a film camera the shots will only available next week, finished observing at 21:30 the temp was 8degs, wish there was no moon tonight even though the seeing was pretty poor. astroron

[xrekcor]

I forgot about the event, but was reading an article a few days back that mentioned you can observe Jupiter during the day. Which I had for the first
time gave it a try. Yesterday I knew Jupiter wasn't far from the moon, I was going lock onto it and whind the RA until I came across it. Well locked onto the moon about 3:30pm and Jupiter was sitting right next to it.

I tried imaging with the LPI but to much wind, so I tried a couple of "Hold the camera up to the ep" trick which wasn't much better. Anyways here are some of the results... the first image is actually the second from the left below, taken about 3:45pm or there abouts with the LPI, the other at about 4:00pm with a canon powershot A85

regards

[xrekcor]

And it isn't looking any better for this weekend either... the sat image doesn't look promising.

regards

[BC]

They were talking about it on the radio as I drove the kids home from school at ~4.30pm. The cloud had cleared by the time we got home and there it was, shining happily next to the moon. I grabbed the binoculars (as the birthday present is still uncomfortably in the box !!!!!) and it looked a treat. The temp at 4.30 was 3.9 degrees and windy so I didn't last long. I had another look just as it was getting dark and I could see the moon, jupiter and 3 of its moons all in the binos FOV, excellent sight. :2thumbs:

[rmcpb]

It was great to actually see Jupiter naked eye during the day. I suppose you could do that any day if only you knew where to look.

It was on the radio here and there were cars stopped along the road with people out looking. Don't see that too often.

Cheers

[iceman]

It was great, though I completely forgot and didn't see it until 5:30pm.. by the time I had my scope out at home it was 7:15pm and I could see them both in teh FOV of a 32mm plossl.. it was one time (well, not the only time) I wished I had a 31mm widefield nagler :)

If I'd remembered I'd have had the scope out earlier and taken some pics, as I was hoem from work yesterday :/

[xrekcor]

It was a spectacular sight at around 5pm just as the sun hit the western horizon. I actually thought I could even sight a Jove moon on the side closest to the moon with naked eye. Although I think I'm dreaming but dang! if it didn't look like it. I noticed this only a few minutes after sun down and only for a few minutes. and could not detect it later. So I'm not sure if there is a point in interaction where this could be possible.

regards

[hector]

You do not have to wait till an near occoltation to see Jupiter during the day.
This was the 3rd time i have seen Jupiter in the day. Both previous times I waited till the Moon was near the planet and looked later in the day. Knowing where the moon is in relation to Jupiter makes the job easy. I have even been able to follow Mars into daylight just after the last opposition.